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FBI Assistant Director in charge of the Los Angeles office Bill Lewis and Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michel Moore discuss the arrest in Mexico of former USC professor Walter Lee Williams during a news conference on June 19. LOS ANGELES - A former University of Southern California professor who's accused of sex crimes involving ... (more)

Tropical Storm Barry, the second named storm of the 2013 hurricane season, is expected to hit Mexico's southeastern coast.

"Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent Into Darkness" by Alfredo Corchado; Penguin Press Journalist Alfredo Corchado has had a front seat to many of the most important events of recent Mexican history.

Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in that country's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz.

In Mexico, it's nothing new, even though it seems like it. A couple of decades ago, during the long rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, some voices of discontent called on people to vote for the comedians Cantinflas or Capulina.

Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the FBI's 10 most-wanted list and faces sex crimes charges in the Philippines.

Popocatepetl, the second highest peak in Mexico, has erupted once again and is spewing ash that could reach Mexico City, which is 40 miles away.

The director of the Federal District's missing persons bureau is out in the wake of the disappearances of several young people from two bars in Mexico City, a Federal District Attorney's Office spokesman told Efe Tuesday.

Mexico's active Popocatepetl volcano has registered a massive explosion spewing ash and incandescent rock almost 4 kilometers high.

David Ginsburg is a Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program in the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Mayoral elections in the Mexican city of Xalapa, scheduled for next month, feature an unusual candidate - a black-and-white cat called Morris! And thousands of residents have pledged their support to this new candidate who, they claim, makes no false promises, unlike previously nominated corrupt politicians referred to as "rats" in "Tired of voting ... (more)

Safety helmets are seen on the wall in the security area of the Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform "Ku Maloob Zaap" in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of Campeche April 19, 2013.

Jury selection could get underway as early as tomorrow for the trial of an ex-con accused of killing a Hemet drug counselor with whom he was living and stuffing her body in a suitcase that he dumped in a motel room.

A suspect in the brutal murder of a Lake Charles woman has been named to the FBI's 10 "Most Wanted" List.

Across Mexico, the lawlessness and carnage of the drug wars have given rise to scores of local self-defense forces aiming to defend their communities.

Photographer Spencer Tunick fills landscapes and public places with the naked body.

There are 145,000 HNWIs and 2,540 UHNWIs in Mexico in 2012. This report reviews the performance and asset allocations of HNWIs and Ultra HNWIs in Mexico and highlights top-performing cities.

MEXICO CITY, June 17 -- A 5.8- magnitude earthquake jolted southern Mexico's Guerrero state at 0:19 a.m. local time on Sunday, the Mexican National Seismological Service said.

A moderate earthquake has struck southern Mexico, shaking buildings in the capital and sending frightened people out into the streets.

Coahuila state officials say one person died and 10,000 houses are damaged, leaving 40,000 peoples homeless.